About Darby Higgs

Mr Darby Higgs has a qualifications in Agricultural Science, Education and Information Management.

He has worked as a teacher in secondary schools in rural Victoria, Australia where he taught mathematics,
science and environmental studies.

During the late 1980's Mr Higgs was a political adviser to the Australian Minister for Science.
During the 1990's he had experience in the development of electronic information resources in the fields
of agriculture and road transport research.

Between 1996 and 2005 Mr Higgs was Deputy Director of the Australian APEC Study Centre where he was
involved the assembly of internet based resources dealing with Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, trade
and investment liberalisation, globalisation, trade and environment.

Mr Higgs has an interest in the insights provided by complexity theory into the problems of international
economic relations and economic development.

His current business interests include the Australian wine industry and the use of the internet for wine related
businesses.